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Ethiopia, located on the Horn of East Africa, has up some 16,000,000 Semantic tongue speakers.Amharic and Tigrinya are two widely spoken Languages in Ethiopia and they are have millions of speakers. After Arabic, Amharic and Tigrinya has the second largest Semitic language speakers.Other Semantic languages outside of Ethiopia, Near and Middle East include the Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic or Akkadian languages. Semitic languages show characteristics of being being closely related to the historical, religious, and cultural ties of their speakers. Ullendorff (1968:3 ff) shows Ethiopia has a definite “Biblical Atmosphere.” Ethiopia has a large Amharic and Tigryna speakers but it also has other limited, minority languages in danger of becoming extinct.